Metamorphosos

Eston Eugene Roberts was born in New Orleans, LA, on April 12, 1932, to ArthurleneSutt on and Carl Daniel Roberts. His mother worked as a hotel maid and his father,some years older than his wife, was a traveling magazine salesman who abandonedhis wife and two children in 1936. The family of three then relocated to Damascus,GA, where they lived for a time with a great-uncle named Gary.Within a year, Eston's mother re-married, and the family moved to a large loghome on the edge of Hilburn Hammock in an adjoining county. In addition to hisstepfather's parents, the house was already home to four siblings, and the additionof three new family members made, understandably, a stressful situation. Hismother, essentially a city girl, was shown no sympathy for her lack of agriculturalcompetence, and the two older girls banded in tandem, forcing her to do their laundry.It was no coincidence, given these pressures, that his mother began to suffer foaming-at-the-mouth seizures, and he remembers retreating to the north end of the longfront porch and screaming "Help! Help! Help!" at the top of his lungs. Over time,escaping that feeling of helplessness became the lodestone of his life.Eston's stepfather was a hard taskmaster--opening often that he was doing a manday's work at nine years of age-and was quick to point out Eston's failures to measureup, occasioning the defensive remonstrance: "I don't care, I'm not going to be afarmer anyway!"-a vow he was able to keep, having spent most of his workingyears as a college administrator and teacher of English.Eston and his late wife, Dorothy, brought into theworld five children, all of whom have showeredhis life with blessings.Metamorposos seeks to re-defi ne meta-phor as thesource of everything on the planet, providing, inthe process, a rationale for independent living, asuggested path for liberation from the hypocrisy ofreligions and reflexive living, and the wherewithalto assume responsibility for a self-directed existencebased on the concept of grounded integrity.The author is pleased to acknowledge hisindebtedness to the metaphor that is quantummechanics.